[Late September or Early October 1905]

**Date:** 1905-10
**Source:** Lenin Collected Works, vol. 26
**Pages:** 430-430

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EDITORIAL NOTE FROM "PROLETARIAT" TO 
B. A. BRESLÁV'S LETTER.
[Late September or Early October 1905]

[From the Editorial Board]. This interesting letter 
vividly demonstrates how the revolutionary activity of the proletariat in the North exceeded the expectations of many soc[ial]-dem[ocrats].¹)

¹ B. A. Bresláv's letter, signed "Worker Zakhar," is dated "Moscow 15/IX." The letter provides a detailed description of the growth of a broad mass movement in the South, with open workers' assemblies (so-called exchanges), then discusses the state of work in Moscow, and finally draws a general conclusion: "in the South the workers' movement has already come out from basements and holes into the street, while in the North the worker will unfold his struggle only after the revolution" (concerning his work in the South and in Moscow in 1905, Bresláv wrote in an article: "Recollections of 1905 in Moscow" in the Collection "The Fifth Year," published by "Moskovskii Rabochii" 1925). In No. 23 of "Proletariat" of October 31 (18), 1905, a large excerpt from Bresláv's letter was published under the heading "South and North" with the following editorial note written by M. Olminsky: "Events in Sormovo, Iv.-Voznesensk, Kostroma, Petersburg and other places show that the author of the letter underestimates the strength of the workers' movement in the North. 
Recent Moscow events have demonstrated this even more strikingly."

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